And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Years ago I saw a show on our very ancient ancestors who still lived largely in trees in Africa. There is a cave whose entrance is a large pit. At the bottom of this pit are lots of animal bones, including the bones and skulls of these ancient hominids. The skull have two holes in the lower back of the cranium. What caused that? A little sleuthing found that the pit had likely had a tree or big limb growing over it often in the many eons, and that leopards likely dragged kills up there to eat them, just as they do today. The holes were caused by the leopard's lower jaw fangs as the cats carried the dead hominids by the head, with the upper fangs in the eye sockets. Sure glad to live in modern times, eh?
He will eat you without consideration of your race, creed, or nation of origin.
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ReplyDeleteYears ago I saw a show on our very ancient ancestors who still lived largely in trees in Africa. There is a cave whose entrance is a large pit. At the bottom of this pit are lots of animal bones, including the bones and skulls of these ancient hominids. The skull have two holes in the lower back of the cranium. What caused that? A little sleuthing found that the pit had likely had a tree or big limb growing over it often in the many eons, and that leopards likely dragged kills up there to eat them, just as they do today. The holes were caused by the leopard's lower jaw fangs as the cats carried the dead hominids by the head, with the upper fangs in the eye sockets. Sure glad to live in modern times, eh?
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